Re: Sound on a Macbook Pro 5,5?

Re: Sound on a Macbook Pro 5,5?

I got the same MBP just yesterday. I have been ubuntu users for few years now and I'd rather keep using that. Did you encounter any other problem?

I am quite amazed by how MacOSX is handling the battery life (7 hours is wow) and the suspend/resume routine (you open the lid and it's just ON!); how do these two compare under Ubuntu? Can anyone make a comment?

Re: Sound on a Macbook Pro 5,5?

Originally Posted by crocowhile

I got the same MBP just yesterday. I have been ubuntu users for few years now and I'd rather keep using that. Did you encounter any other problem?

I am quite amazed by how MacOSX is handling the battery life (7 hours is wow) and the suspend/resume routine (you open the lid and it's just ON!); how do these two compare under Ubuntu? Can anyone make a comment?

So far I haven't really used it yet, sorry. Suspend, hibernate and restart all don't work for me, so unlike OS X you have to shut it completely off each time you stop using it with Ubuntu. Can't comment on battery yet as I haven't used it without power supply so far.

It surely is one of the best quality pieces of hardware that I've come across so far, though, that's why I bought it right after release, since I've been considering getting the "old" 13" unibody MacBook for quite a while anyways.

This way screen brightness can be controlled through the F keys and also will adjust automatically with the light sensor. If you are not happy with the automatic adjustament you can customize values in gconf-editor apps/gnome-power-manager/ambient

The touchpad works but tapping doesn't work out of the box. You need to configure certain variables using synclient. In my case I changed
synclient TapButton1=1
synclient TapButton2=2
synclient TapButton3=3
synclient PalmDetect=1
synclient VertEdgeScroll=0

Re: Sound on a Macbook Pro 5,5?

*brightness of the screen:*
cannot be regulated in any way: no applet, no keys, no automatic
also pommed doesn't work (version 1.25) as it complaints that the macbook is unknow.

Hi guys,

I have one of the 5,5's. However, I don't use Ubuntu, I use Arch Linux.

Just to let you know, I emailed the pommed author and sent him some output so he could update pommed for the new 13" Macbook Pro. You can download the source for the updated version (1.27) from the git repository here.

Re: Sound on a Macbook Pro 5,5?

Hey guys, there's a lot of talk on this thread about the 5,5 (13" pro), but does anyone know if this also applies to the new 15" (that is, the 5,3)? Because that is what I have and I'm not getting any sound either. I'm going to assume the problems with the 5,5 will carry over to the other new ones as well, unless someone tells me that a solution already exists.

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